Re: How do I get reiserfs support in RHEL?

[jim bartus <jim bartus gmail com>]

I've heard here and in several posts in the past that if you change
ext3's journaling in rhel4 you can get most of the performance benefit
of reiser.  Can anyone link to benchmarks illustrating this?  Also,
how do you make the change?

-jim
p.s. I apologize if I'm replying to the wrong email, I can't figure
out how to get gmail to do threaded-view.

On 4/22/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:34 -0500, Aaron M. Hirsch wrote:
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> > Dan Bongert wrote:
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> > > To get online resizing (with LVM) without having to upgrade
> > > everything to RHEL4 which can do it on EXT3. This hasn't been a
> > > problem yet, exactly, since my file server is still running RH9,
> > > which was supported by EMC when we had our SAN installed. In fact,
> > > that's one reason my file server is the only machine I have that
> > > *isn't* running RHEL yet--lack of reiserfs support. I would have to
> > > convert several TB of data to some other filesystem.
> >
> > Grab the kernel source and re-compile with reiserfs...to build
> > resierfs-utils see either:
> actually in rhel3 reiserfs is just in the kernel-unsupported package,
> and I think the reiserfs-utils is included too somewhere. Useful to make
> migrating not too painful..
> 
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